The Norse history and culture WikiProject is a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the history, culture, language, and religion of the Norse people, both at home in Scandinavia and in their many overseas colonies through the ages, up to the time of the Kalmar Union in 1397. The best-known time period covered by this project is the Viking Age, but the focus will also be on the less-well known Nordic Bronze Age, Pre-Roman Iron Age, and the Norsemen during the High Middle Ages (c. 1000-1300).
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Þórarinn Ragabróðir Óleifsson
Haakon Ivarsson [nn; wikidata]
Ivar the White [nn]
Jarnskjegge Asbjørnsson [no]
Arnmod Arnvidarsson [es]
Árni Arnmódsson [es]
Thorstein Gallows [es]
Gudbrand Kula [no]
Ólafur Einarsson (Viking) [es]
Ragnhild Magnusdatter [no]
Tora Thorsteinsdotter [Wikidata]
Tora Skagedotter [nn]
Bergljot Thorisdottir [no]
Ålov Årbot Haraldsdotter [no]
Grjotgard Herlaugsson [nn]
Herlaug Grjotgardsson [no]
Hrólfr nefja [es]
Björn Grímsson [es]
Yngvild Ketilsdottir [Wikidata]
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...that Ardre image stones were used as paving under the wooden floors of a local church in the Ardre parish of Gotland? --26 November 2004
...that, according to Ahmed ibn Fadlan, the supreme ruler of the Rus' Khaganate"had no duties other than to make love to his slave girls, drink, and give himself up to pleasure"? --19 October 2006
...that the Siege of Constantinople by the Rus in 860 is known primarily from the writings of Patriarch Photius, who referred to the invaders as "a swarm of wasps" and compared their attack to "a thunderbolt from heaven"? --31 October 2006
...that Öpir, the "shouter", was the most productive of the old Vikingrunemasters? --18 January 2007
...that "quickfire", a form of arson employed in Scandinavian blood feuds, was punishable by death only if the perpetrator was caught in the act and killed at the scene of the crime? --19 February 2008
... that in 1029, the ransom of the Hiberno-Norse prince Amlaíb mac Sitriuc included over 1,200 cows, 60 ounces of gold and of silver, "the sword of Carlus", and a large number of Irishhostages? --23 March 2009
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Category:Norse people
Category:Scandinavian archaeology
Category:Archaeology of Sweden
Category:Norse mythology
Category:Germanic peoples
Category:Scandinavian history
Category:History of Norway
Category:History of Denmark
Category:History of Sweden
Category:History of Iceland
Category:Norse history and culture
Category:Pre-Viking Scandinavia
Category:Nordic Bronze Age
Category:Pre-Roman Iron Age
Category:Viking Age
Category:Anglo-Norse England
Category:Battles involving the Vikings
Category:Norse hundreds
Category:Picture stones
Category:Viking Age monarchs
Category:Viking exploration of North America
Category:Viking Age people
Category:Anglo-Norse people
Category:Viking Age clergy
Category:Heroes in Norse myths and legends
Category:Lawspeakers
Category:Viking Age monarchs
Category:Normans
Category:Norse-Gaels
Category:Clan Donald
Category:Clan MacDougall
Category:Norse-Gaelic monarchs
Category:Viking Age poets
Category:Viking Age women
Category:Viking Age populated places
Category:Viking practices
Category:Runology
Category:Runes
Category:Runic inscriptions
Category:Runic manuscripts
Category:Runestones
Category:Runestones in memory of Viking warriors
Category:Old Norse literature
Category:Old Norse prose
Category:Sagas
Category:Chivalric sagas
Category:Sagas of Icelanders
Category:Kings' sagas
Category:Legendary sagas
Category:Saga locations
Category:Sagas of saints
Category:Þættir
Category:Old Norse poetry
Category:Eddic poetry
Category:Skaldic poetry
Category:Vikings
Category:Anglo-Saxon people
Category:Angles
Category:Jutes
Category:Anglo-Saxon England
Category:8th century in England
Category:9th century in England
Category:10th century in England
Category:11th century in England
Category:Anglo-Saxon paganism
Category:Anglo-Saxon archaeology
Category:Anglo-Saxon architecture
Category:Anglo-Saxon art
Category:Battles involving the Anglo-Saxons
Category:Anglo-Saxon Christianity
Category:Anglo-Saxon documents
Category:Anglo-Saxon law
Category:Monarchs of Anglo-Saxon England
Category:Norman conquest of England
Category:Anglo-Norse England
Category:Anglo-Norse people
Category:House of Godwin
Category:Anglo-Norse monarchs
Category:Norse monarchs of East Anglia
Category:Monarchs of Jorvik
Category:Old English language
Category:Old English literature
Category:Anglo-Saxon people
Category:Petty kingdoms of England
Category:Anglo-Saxon society
Category:Anglo-Saxon treaties
Category:Anglo-Saxon royalty
Category:Anglo-Saxon slaves
Category:Anglo-Saxon thegns
Category:Anglo-Saxon women
Category:Anglo-Saxon writers
Category:Anglo-Saxon poets
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IGuNny (talk) Viking settlements and southern Norway.
Kivar2 (talk) 16:49, 11 June 2008 (UTC) - Mostly mythology[reply]
WikieWikieWikie My interest is in Norse involvement in the British Isles mainly, with especial interest in Cnut the Great.
ErikTheBikeMan (talk · contribs) (Norse mythology, just about anything.)) Currently attempting to assess all article tagged in the project.
Robert Greer (talk) 15:51, 14 November 2008 (UTC) My interest piqued last summer reading Moberg's Min svenska historia while on vacation in Sweden.[reply]
H2ostra originally became interested through Viking metal, now genuinely interested in Norse mythology and ancient culture
JanderVK Germanic history and Asatru
Deacon of Pndapetzim (talk · contribs) 10th and 11th century Insular Scandinavians
Carlsefni (talk · contribs) language, mythology/religion, legend, literature, history
Deanlaw (talk · contribs)
BodvarBjarki (talk) Norse and Anglo-Saxon philology, history, archaeology, etc.
Loki Clock: Language, Mythology, general
Alþykkr (talk · contribs) Anything, notably Norse military history
Bothvild (talk · contribs) Mythology, literature, specific people and events, archaeological evidence.
DinDraithou (talk · contribs), Norse-Gaels, history of the Norse in Ireland, whose history is lost
thunder.fire42 (talk · contribs), Norse, anything Norse but technology and war tactics is what I like most and all runic alphabet.
Cilibinarii (talk · contribs). Interested in Viking history in general, and love reading sagas and the eddas, amongst others. Particularly mythological themes in the sagas (refer to Hilda Ellis Davidson's works!) and the survival of paganism interests me, but not Asatru.
Jack Blackbourn (talk · contribs) - My interest is in Norse settlements on the British Isles, the Danelaw (as the area I grew up was right in the heart of the Danelaw, genealogy as I find it is interesting to see how many people in Britain (especially on the East coast and East Midlands of England) are of Norse ancestry.
MarmadukePercy (talk · contribs). Norse influence on Normandy.
Nora lives
Norvegia suecica - Scandinavian history in general, with a focus on Bahusian.
Danjel (talk · contribs)
JG 28 (talk). Icelandic Sagas and the Eddas.
Epicurus B. (talk · contribs) - Interested in Norse mythology in general
Cesdeva (talk · contribs)
Floatsam (talk · contribs) Literature and Mythology
Pjamescowie (talk · contribs)
Sigurdrífa (talk · contribs) Norse mythology and legends, other folklore, Icelandic sagas and other medieval Icelandic literature, medieval and later Icelandic and general Norse history and culture
Stamboliyski (talk · contribs)
Retroplum (talk · contribs) Norse influence on the British Isles: Dublin, Danelaw etc.
JoshNEWK1998 (talk · contribs) - Norse history in general, particularly events which took place in the British Isles and Ireland.
Holtseti (talk · contribs)
Schwiiz (talk · contribs) - The language, Mythology, Eddas, and the change from Old Norse down to the modern languages.
Ermenrich (talk · contribs) - More of an expert of medieval German, but interested in the intersections between the two in heroic poems.
RoninMacbeth (talk · contribs)-Interested in Germanic mythology, comaprison with other Indo-European myths, and the Anglo-Saxon settlement of England.
Mccunicano (talk · contribs) - General Scandinavian history, with a slight focus on the early-modern period.
ThatLaurelGirl (talk · contribs) - Ancient Europe, runes, ogham and any ancient writing form
Skullovitch- General history
Carlstak (talk · contribs)
Trilletrollet (talk · contribs)
Resourcesedit
For spelling of Old Norse names, see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Norse mythology).
Heimskringla, an online collection of Old Norse source material
Icelandic Saga Database, the Icelandic sagas available in many languages
MeNoTA public texts - Facsimile, diplomatic, and normalized transcriptions of Old Norse manuscripts, for instances where primary sources are appropriate.
Northvegr.org
Viking Answer Lady
Viking Society for Northern Research web publications (some papers and their journal Saga-Book from 1992 to 2005)
Hurstwic
Work group (task force)edit
Runic studies, also a subgroup of the Ancient Germanic studies WikiProject
Related WikiProjectsedit
Ancient Germanic studies • Denmark • England • European history • Finland • Greenland • Ireland • Iceland • Medieval Scotland • Military history/Nordic military history task force • Normandy • North East England • Norway • Russian History • Sweden
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